Arts for Learning Residencies
The Arts for Learning Residencies bring a teaching artist into your classroom (usually for five sessions) and inspire your students to engage with reading and writing through the arts. Give students the opportunity to work with professional artists to explore specific texts. Residencies are crafted to build upon the Units, but they can also stand alone.
 Arts for Learning Residencies may extend the Units or stand alone. These residencies emphasize proficiency in a particular art form while reinforcing literacy, learning and life skills. Trained teaching artists conduct residencies with active participation by classroom teachers. Residencies include a minimum of five 45- to 60- minute sessions and a culminating performance event.
Residency 1: From the Page to the Stage
A professional actor leads students through the creative process of translating a well-known fairy tale into a simple Story Theatre production while deepening their understanding of perspective, visualization, inference, and the elements of a story.
Residency 2: Drawing Conclusions
The teaching artist thrills students as they learn to create their own graphic stories based upon the story of Humpty-Dumpty. By writing and illustrating their own stories, students practice visualization, author’s choice, point of view, and story elements.
 Residency 3: The Art of Bookmaking
The teaching artist explores materials and methods for creating an art book using collage. The residency extends the concept of “everyday heroes” to one of the students’ own choosing, who is celebrated in a book the student creates.
Residency 4: Sound Shapers
Students create new sounds and organize them into a soundtrack for an imaginary movie trailer based on a solid understanding of the text. Directed by a professional musician, the final piece is performed and recorded so students get a finished product to keep.
Residency 5: What’s in the Words?
A professional artist helps students translate poems into dance and spoken word performance pieces while exploring word meaning, prosody, and the parts of speech. |
